Games like Tunnelborn
If Tunnelborn is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dig Dig Boom, Ricave and Hunt the Muglump — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Tunnelborn: Dig for fossils under a volcano, one tile at a time. Nothing moves until you do — but then the lava creeps closer, your lamp burns lower, and something in the dark takes another step towards you…
Players who liked Tunnelborn also play
Steam players who put hours into Tunnelborn also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Dig Dig Boom
WHY THIS
Top pick for Tunnelborn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tunnelborn.
Dig Dig Boom is a strategic mining roguelite set in a fully destructible world where time moves only when you move. Dig, blast, explore and fight your way through procedurally generated caves using a wide selection of mining tools with unique effects.
Ricave
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Tunnelborn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tunnelborn.
Ricave is a turn-based, first-person dungeon crawler roguelike. Target enemy limbs, weaponize traps and spells to survive ever-changing dungeons, and rewind time. Follow cryptic guidance, piece together your past, aid other trapped souls, and outwit the Demon.
Hunt the Muglump
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Tunnelborn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tunnelborn.
Retro-inspired dungeon crawling adventure/puzzle
Dungeon's Gambit
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Tunnelborn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tunnelborn.
Dungeon’s Gambit is a real-turn chess dungeon crawler that mixes real-time environments with turn-based combat. Customize your pawn, unlock new skills to find powerful synergies, defeat challenging bosses, and fight your way through the Black Castle to take down the Throne.
Trolley Path to Gold
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Tunnelborn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tunnelborn.
Puzzle game, build your way to the gold mine by collecting all the tools that come along the way.
Haunted Dungeons: Hyakki Castle
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Tunnelborn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Tunnelborn.
A Japanese "yokai" castle-maze adventure inspired by the real-time first person dungeon RPGs of the 1980s. Infiltrate the mysterious Hyakki Castle that appeared in a land of exiles as part of a secret anti-supernatural government group and defeat its master!
Core Keeper
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Tunnelborn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tunnelborn.
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
DROD: Gunthro and the Epic Blunder
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Tunnelborn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tunnelborn.
DROD is a unique puzzle-logic game with clever mechanics and an engaging story. It is a turn-based top-down 2-D dungeon puzzler. The game play has amazing depth through emergent behaviors as puzzle elements are combined. There is a simple interface and only a handful of commands to master.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tunnelborn.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Tunnelborn.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tunnelborn.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tunnelborn.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tunnelborn.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tunnelborn.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tunnelborn.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Narrow it down
Head-to-head comparisons
More from CROCFISH
Other recommendable Steam games by CROCFISH, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
MOK: Super Space Taxi
WHY THIS
Another title from CROCFISH, the studio behind Tunnelborn. Shares Indie with Tunnelborn.
Navigate a fragile space ship through dangerous caverns. Hand-drawn. From easy to super tricky in 5 worlds.
Water Droplet Simulator
WHY THIS
Another title from CROCFISH, the studio behind Tunnelborn. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tunnelborn.
You are a water droplet. You can look around. That's it.
FAIL GAMES
WHY THIS
Another title from CROCFISH, the studio behind Tunnelborn. Shares Indie with Tunnelborn.
FAIL GAMES is a collection of brutally hard but simple minigames. Beat each game to unlock the next. Earn coins when you fail and spend them on outfits and effects. So easy to learn your grandma could play it, but so hard to master you'll throw your PC out the window. And your grandma.
Frequently asked about Tunnelborn
- What games are most similar to Tunnelborn?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Tunnelborn are Dig Dig Boom, Ricave, Hunt the Muglump.
- Who developed Tunnelborn?
- Tunnelborn was developed by CROCFISH.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Tunnelborn.
For library-aware picks tuned to your specific taste, sign in with Steam on the home page.